This book investigates the tensions between EU law and international
commercial arbitration, i.e. tensions between two phenomena at opposite
ends of the public to private ordering continuum. It focuses on the
Commercial Agents Directive's regime for indemnity and compensation as
one of the most frequent source of these tensions. To mitigate the
consequential problems, the book proposes and describes a comprehensive
framework for a preferable system of reviewing arbitration agreements
and arbitral awards. To this end, it explores the prerequisites of this
system through comparative legal analysis of the German, Belgian, French
and English systems of review, an assessment of the observable aspects
of arbitral practice, game theoretical analysis of the arbitral process,
and microeconomic analysis of the cross-border market for commercial
agency.